This coming from those who feel age 5 can decide for themselves what gender or sexual orientation they feel like being.
You hit the nail wiffle, there has been some big changes in the academic part of raising children.
Problem I believe is there is no one around to Teach the kids out of school.
I received a good tongue lashing in Cal. when my oldest child went to first grade and could read since she was 3. I had caused my kid to be bored in class when she was reading 4 classes above her classmates.
Less then a year later the teachers were complaining the parents were not helping the kids with homework. The new Math had come in and it was a mystery to us how it worked.
We parents had been taught to memorise the times tables and not use a calculator.
Then in come marching the Professionals with all their theory's on allowing our children self expression, no rules for the kids to follow and to encourage them to act out of anger and manipulate the parents, siblings, teachers and finally as adults everyone with tears and claims of some mental disability.
Much easier for the parents to excuse the monsters they raised on something they were born with then to blame themselves for being bad parent role models.
Teachers are there to teach the 3 R's, Parents there to teach all else about survival into the world they are going into. Unfortunately the world the kids are moving into is nothing like the lives their parents grew up in. How to teach a child about living in a future that is so different from one the parents experienced ? A world that is not here yet, we are not fortune tellers,
So teach them survival methods, how to cook and clean, how to sew on a button, what to do when lost, ------I forgot the Boy Scouts have been doing this for a century.